Eagle Foundation, Inc. v. Dole’s Empirical Analysis
813 F.2d 798 · 1987
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Water Technologies Corp. v. Calco, Ltd. (1988), Citizens Against Burlington, Inc. v. Busey (1991)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 23 U.S.C. § 138 · 49 U.S.C. § 303 · 7 U.S.C. § 4201 (Farmland Protection Policy Act)
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Ohio v. Kentucky · Radzanower v. Touche Ross & Co. · Union Electric Co. v. Environmental Protection Agency · United States v. United States Gypsum Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) The Secretary may approve a transportation program or project ... requiring the use of ... land of an historic site of national, State, or local significance (as determined by the Federal, State or local officials having jurisdiction over the ... site) only if— (1) there is no prudent and feasible alternative to using that land; and (2) the program or project includes all possible planning to minimize harm to the ... historic site resulting from the use.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] prudent judgment by an agency is one that takes into account everything important that matters. A cumulation of small problems may add up to a sufficient reason to use Sec. 4(f) lands.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The principle is that if you prevail in Suit # 1 by representing that A is true, you are stuck with A in all later litigation growing out of the same events.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.